Transcript Slide 1
What’s it good for? Turning it into a good practice story Paul Barasi Local Compact Voice Officer Jones, do you realise what the Compact is? It’s the agreement between the government and voluntary organisations to improve their relationship for mutual advantage. It’s got us better relations, improved funding processes, clear consultation standards, enforceable rights. Do you know what you can do with something as powerful as a Local Compact? It helps us to do things together that make a difference by building on success. Don’t bury your Compact in the sand! 5 Codes of GOOD PRACTICE One Compact to rule them all It’s what good councils do Good funders do Good consulters do Greater independence Stronger relationships Better outcomes Tests Public bodies demonstrate they understand it Easy for groups to represent users & be heard Groups believe campaigning won’t risk funding Groups manage their own affairs free from interference and without council appointees on their trustee boards Negotiated, not imposed over-prescriptive contracts (facilitating service transformation) Some groups don’t challenge Compact breaches. Why? Are public bodies more supportive and enabling? Is access and working together easier, quicker, better? Is our Compact known, used and followed? Is a Compact way of working together used right from the start? Enfield: cutting red tape in grants process Merton: 42 planned and opportunistic wins in first two years – and from when things go wrong Enfield Police used their Compact to engage faith groups Merton’s community policing standards apply their Compact principles and values at street level. Turning a campaign to keep the Lido into a partnership to jointly manage it Did you know our Compact can get small groups more involved in community strategy, overview and scrutiny, best value and the local area agreement? I don’t know what these are, how to get involved or what support I’d get Thriving engagement Thriving Third Sector Thriving communities Full Participation LAA tasks the Compact LAA driver for Group on capacity and partnership involvement building The LAA’s Golden Thread Plus pioneering LAA at Street Level: Northamptonshire's Compact People Power on grants – Bradford, Sunderland … What could linking this with a Compact achieve? 020 7520 2453 [email protected] Compactvoice.org.uk